Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-19
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made from seawccd Il paper transpar-
ent enough to be substituted for win
dow glass.
DR.. L. Parmly Brown says the eX-
cessive use Of common salt is one Of
the main factors in the destruction Of
human teeth.
The Chinese public school in san
Francisco has now thirty-oight pupils,
although il started a year and 4 half
.go with only siN.
Prof. B~artholow says that choral is
he most effective remedy for cholera.
and its power is much morc increased
by the addition OF morphine.
BY the will OF f. Price Greenleaf, of
Boston. who died recently, Harvard
college will receive a bequest of nearly
$4,000 Most Of it is to be used to
assist needy u~ngraduates.
The late Richard Perkins, of Boston,
left by his will $237,000 to charitable
institutions of that city, including
$4,000 to the institute OF Technology
and 100000 to the Museum of Fine
Arts.
The overseers Of Harvard have cho-
sen DR.. Il. Lanciani, Of Rome, to be
university lecturer on Roman archaol-
ogy for 1887. and DR.. Charles VALID
stein. at present at Cambridge, Eng,
lecturer on German archaeology.
The Brussels academy of sciences
has elected Adolph Mcneil, the pain
ter, TO the chair formerly occupied by
Piloty and Anton Rubinstein. the plan
st and composer. to the char Of Abbe
List.
DR.. /. 5. Hopkins, president of En-
DRY college, Ga. is planning reorgani-
zation Of that institution in the direc-
ton of greatly charging the techno-
logical department. That college il
the pioneer industrial school Of The
state.
Some friends of Princeton college
have provided funds 70 send m expc-
dition from the college IN charge Of
Professor Charles A. Young to oh
serve the eclipse Of August 10. in
Russia.
Tie Philadelphia Press very sen>ibly
says: Men who talk with or at a drug
grist when he is engaged at his bust
ness should in Justice be held response
BILE for his errors caused by their i'm
pertinent intrusion upon his attention.
Platinum wire can be drawn so fine
that it is no longer visible to the naked
eye, and can only be felt. 1t can be
seen with a magnitying glass when
the wire is held against white paper.
1t is used in telescopes and similar in
struments.
1t has been found that compressed
eak may be made to serve some of
the purposes for which boxwood-
which is rapidly becoming scarce.-is
now used. A powerful hydraulic
press for COMPRISING teak for loom
shuttles has just been made in Man
chester, England.
Ten per cent. of the students in the
university of Zurich are women.
Twcnty-nine OF them are studying med
icine. fourteen philosophy, and two
political economy. There are now
forty-eight students of medicine in
London, and in Paris 1903 Wherein
the last sever years eighteen women
have taken a medical degree in Paris.
1t is interesting news that Princeton
:oHegc proposes to adopt a system of
student cooperation in college govern
ment much like that in vogue at Am
herst. In \ modified form the plan ha,
worked well ut Harvard, and its ad-
mirable working and increasing popu
larity is one Of the strongest evidences
Of the changes that has come over the
spirit of college life in a generation.
President Eliot. Of Harvard, who has
been ailing for some ime, is to spend
nearly u year IN travelling abroad,
ihC-ttb III iAuIIaId. Ltt VIII SKIRT ctttf
in the new year, and during his ab-
sencc Clement l.. Smith, dean of the
faculty. viii have direction Of the col
/, lcgc. The degree at the next com
menccment Will be conferred by a
member Of the corporation, probably
BY Francis ParAman. the senior fellow.
Ex-President With cas- endowed the
Cornell university school of history and
political science with bis fine historial
library, containing about 10000 vol
umcs and pamphlets, and YaiEcd al
100000. The trustees have voted to
pane the new law school President
White school Of history and political
science, and professorships OF history
aud political and municipal institu-
tons, and Of political economy, finance
and social science are To be established
at an carly day.
President McCo,h, Of Princeton col
! Iegc. has written q lettcr suggesting 4
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